His experience ranges from the Western classical keyboard tradition, to folk music, and to modern electro-acoustic free improvisation.
[1] The Chicago Sun-Times called his composition "evocative",[2][3] and his improvisations have been hailed by Keyboard Magazine as "challenging and creative".
His score for Peer Gynt was nominated for a 2005 Joseph Jefferson award for outstanding original incidental music for a play.
Other theatre music and sound design credits include Madwoman of Chaillot and the Jeff-nominated Natural Affection for the Artistic Home, and Lakeside Shakespeare of Michigan's productions of Twelfth Night and Julius Caesar.
Johnson originally received his education at the Manhattan School of Music Preparatory division, the State University of New York at Purchase (BFA Magna Cum Laude) and Northwestern University (MFA Magna Cum Laude) for his graduate studies.